The massive game publisher has a "habit of buying beloved gaming companies and either summarily executing them, or corrupting them to the point where they’re almost unrecognizable," writes Tassi.

And yet "the plights of the gaming industry simply don’t compare with BofA’s actions resulting in people literally losing their homes and savings," Tassi continues.

He's right, of course. EA is widely loathed, and they've brought that reputation down on their own heads, but they're loathed for reasons that pale in comparison to basically any of the big mortgage companies and banks involved in the housing crisis and financial collapse.

The thing about this sort of contest is that it's determined ultimately by the votes of people online. You can vote in the poll yourself.

Of course people online tend to have passionate views about niche issues, whether that's gaming or photos of cats or Ron Paul, a candidate whose online presence far outshines his actual performance in the voting booth. Marijuana legalization may have grown more popular over the years among broader swaths of the American electorate, but it's still something that finds a far more comfortable home online than in the real world.

Gaming is no different, attracting a particular set of very tech-savvy, always-online types which undoubtedly skews the results of this sort of contest.

Of course, the contest itself is set up to only include highly visible companies like GameStop, Walmart, AT&T, and EA. These companies all have dubious reputations and high-profile images. In other words, they're all easy targets.

Here's the Consumerist's breakdown up to the Final Four, just so you can get a visual of which companies were in this from the get-go: